kist

English

Etymology 1

From kiss

Verb

kist

1. (obsolete) simple past tense and past participle of kiss
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, The Pomander Bracelet,

     To me my Julia lately sent
     A Bracelet richly Redolent
     The Beads I kist, but most lov'd her
     That did perfume the Pomander.

Etymology 2

Possibly from Old Norse kista (chest); but see also cist (“crypt”).

Noun

kist (plural kists)

1. (Scotland) A chest.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     the spear he killed the gryphon with was locked in a kist there, or so some said [...].

2. (Scotland) A coffin.

Verb

kist (third-person singular simple present kists, present participle kisting, simple past and past participle kisted)

1. (Scotland) To place in a coffin.

Related terms

• kist o' whistles

Anagrams

• kits
• skit

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪst

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Noun

kist f, m (plural kisten, diminutive kistje)

1. box, chest
2. army boot
3. coffin
4. (aviation) aeroplane

Verb

kist

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of kisten
2. imperative of kisten

Anagrams

• stik

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /kîst/

Noun

kȉst m (Cyrillic spelling ки̏ст)

1. brush

Declension

    declension of kist

	singular	plural
nominative	kȉst	kìstovi
genitive	kista	kistova
dative	kistu	kistovima
accusative	kist	kistove
vocative	kiste	kistovi
locative	kistu	kistovima
instrumental	kistom	kistovima